PRESIDENTIAL spokesman Edwin Lacierda and the rest of the Palace loudmouths, err, officials, may not be aware that their “downgrading” with regularity the person of retired Major General Jovito Salvaña Palparan Jr. is causing a lot of dismay and rancor in the military’s ranks and in the PNP as well.

Each time the retired two-star general was referred to as ‘Mr. Palparan’ by government officials who are also unable to hide their glee that he is now a wanted man, the salutation cannot fail to produce a tinge of anger in some police and military quarters.

In the annals of the AFP, Gen. Palparan may have been the most controversial officer to rise from its ranks and the charge of his being “ruthless,” “fearsome” and even a “berdugo” may contain a grain of truth in them.

Indeed, people in the AFP/PNP I talked to conceded Gen. Palparan may have committed a lot of things unprintable to begin with, nay, even better left unspoken, in the more than 33 years of his active military service beginning in the jungles of Basilan and Sulu in 1973.

But those are in the firm belief at the time that they are what his duties demand of him to do if he is to stay alive and effectively discharge his sworn duty to protect the state, its institutions and our democratic way of life.

At buhay din ang kanyang puhunan sa bawat ranggo at medalyang nakuha niya -- ’di katulad ng maraming opisyal sa gobyerno na ‘sipsip’ lang naman kay P-Noy kaya napuwesto -- kaya sa tuwing tatawagin siyang ‘Mr. Palparan’ ni Mr. Lacierda, maraming pulis at sundalo ang gustong umangal pero ayaw na lang magsalita.

Now, I am not rooting in favour of the yet-to-be-arrested general. Neither am I saying, in the manner of Mr. Lacierda, that the cases against him should be treated lightly along with his contributions.

Rather, I am just reminding the concerned government officials to remove the bias of prejudice against him each time they open their mouth. Much better too is for everyone to allow the court of law to ferret out the truth and to render justice to him and his “victims.”

Additionally, such fervour in the desire to capture him, with a P500,000 “bounty” for his arrest, also reminds many of the double standard of justice that we still have.

Dahil ba “walang pakinabang” si Gen. Palparan sa gobyernong Aquino kaya “ganun” na lang ang trato sa kanya at tila balewala na ang kanyang mga ambag sa katatagan ng sistema ng ating gobyerno?

Iba siguro kung “Lacson” as in, Sen. Ping Lacson, ang kanyang pangalan?

O kaya naman, “Ochoa,” as in ES Paquito Ochoa, na kahit gasgas na ang pangalan sa BOC sa isyu ng smuggling, dedma lang ang Malacañang, ganun ba ’yun, mga kabayan?

Now, is it still a wonder why it’s taking so long to locate and arrest Gen. Palparan?

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In case Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona and his supporters are wondering why people with pedestrian mindset are not sympathetic to their railing against the “railroading” of the impeachment process against him in the Lower House before Christmas, they should refer to their past record.

For if the immediate past is to be the basis, the consensus is that CJ Corona and those legal eagles (and turkeys too) supporting him, sound hollow in crying “injustice” over the hasty process and the way Malacañang is applying the weight of the presidency in favour of his removal from the High Court.

Was he not among the chief architects of mob rule and the discarding of the rule of law as part of the elite conspiracy to oust Pres. Erap under EDSA Dos in 2001?

Bakit noong “na-railroad” din ang impeachment kay Erap sa Kongreso at “binaboy” ang kanyang Senate trial dahil hindi na tinapos, hindi siya nagprotesta?

The same goes, too, to the IBP and those self-made, self-proclaimed ‘constitutionalists,’ ‘legal experts’ and ‘libertarians’ who now are rallying to his side.

Were they not collectively silent, too, over the travesty of justice committed against one of their peers, Alan Paguia, when the SC, with CJ Corona among the justices, suspended his license to practice law for the next eight years?

Paguia got a full taste of the SC’s abuse power for doing the brave, right and moral thing of pointing out that EDSA Dos and all the things that happened afterwards were all wrong if the rule of law is to be upheld and the correct interpretation of the Constitution is to be followed.

Hindi ba pang-aabuso rin ito ng Korte Suprema sa kapangyarihan? Na ’yung nanindigan para sa tama, pinarusahan nila?

My one cent worth of advice to those bleeding hearts beside CJ Corona is this: “Manalamin” muna kayo bago kayo sumigaw ng “persecution,” “abuse of presidential power” at “violation of the Constitution” laban kay Pang. Noy, hane?

Dangan kasi, kung tinutulan ninyo lahat ang mga ’yan noong si GMA pa ang pangulo, mayroon kayong “kredibilidad” ngayon.

As the saying goes, “Gawain mo, babalik sa iyo!” ’di ba, Lance G of Binondo and Navotas sardines fame?

And by the way, Lance: Kung talagang lalaki ka, lalaki rin ang gulpihin mo at huwag babae, katulad ng kabit, ehek, GF mong artista, d’yan sa ABS-CBN, ’di ba, Carmina Maree ng Ayala, Alabang at Cagayan de Oro City?

Suwerte ka nga, Lance, mukhang kuwarta ang pamilya niya at “malakas” ka sa gobyerno kaya kahit anong gawin mo, kasama na ang  wiretapping sa mga “amo” sa Palasyo, ayos lang sa kanilang lahat.

Kung sa aming mga Batangueño mo ’yan ginagawa? Aba’y matagal na ang ‘babang-luksa’ sa iyo... kahit bilyonaryo ka pa... gago!

Sa madaling salita, puwede ba, tumigil ka na sa pagiging peste? Apat na taon na ngayon ah!

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